A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

***Through a phenomenon known as 'superposition' a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time — at least until an outside force acts on it. Then it instantly chooses one of the two contradictory positions.

But although the rules of quantum mechanics seem to apply at small scales, nobody has seen evidence of them on a large scale, where outside influences can more easily destroy fragile quantum states. "No one has shown to date that if you take a big object, with trillions of atoms in it, that quantum mechanics applies to its motion," Cleland says.

There is no obvious reason why the rules of quantum mechanics shouldn't apply to large objects.

Note: Science and Nature are two of the most reputable mainstream science journals.

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The comfortable sense people commonly have that everything in their consciousness and provided by their perception of what is around them -weaves together such and such a way -a way that makes some clear and even adroit -sense- is generally a grotesque delusion -especially as seen by others from outside that circle of personal comfort.

And generally absolutely -nothing- about what we believe is true -could be further from the truth.

I don't know why, but what occurs to me is that the particles (especially photons) perhaps only spend part of their time in this dimension - and part in the 5th dimension where time is perhaps not linear like it is for us.

Maybe this is what allows photons to act like waves and particles - they act one way in the 4th dimension, and another in the 5th.

How would you feel if I told you that 99% of Quantum Mechanics is mere mind games based on faulty pure Math? Same applies to anyone, including Hawking, who attempts to interpret Maxwell's equations via the now proven faulty Lorentz transformations.

We have reached yet another crossroads in our quest for 'Truth' - Koestler's 'Sleepwalkers' ride again.

All energy might possess the potential to exist in any possible state at any given moment, a state of infinite possibilities perhaps. Like a blank canvas before the artist makes his mark on it.

When the 'artist' makes his mark, or an observer or a force interacts with the energy, this potential could become narrowed and more specific allowing the energy to reflect certain possible states and not others.

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